That's what a snky allgtr do: keeps coming at you. We like tough skin here!

Would like to think the away era could be discounted because of PETCO. If that were the only red flag, I might go. But, you list a bunch more. SIT

When you think, "I can't decide." You have already decided. SIT. We want all of our ducks aligned. The only reason not to is if find ourselves short on streaming ops. We got five the first day out, and I am way ahead on GS, so I think, at least for now, we can be strict.

ColeD-Vriese’d in the Buch-holes yesterday.
Combined: 11.1IP/8.74ERA/1.15WHIP/11K/0W.
You may want to climb back on the bank of the Withywindle and smoke a little of the Longbottom before jumping back in.
Take stock:
1)Throw in Benoit’s 3 ER in .2 IP and it still did NOT change my season standings, 58 out of 60 in pitching rank.
2)Is there ANYTHING we can learn from the day? Remember, I have streamed 135 GS so far (+64 over pace), so there is room to be even more rigid in selections.
DeVries gave up 7 ER on 6 H, 0 BB, in 5.0 IP. 3 HR @MIN? 90degrees and the wind was out @11mph. In a pitcher’s park, would have thought that safe, but maybe not?
Need help here. I am not a whiz regarding GB%,FB%,SIERA,etc. Is there anything in those stats (prior to yesterday’s outing) that was a red flag? (He had passed the checks with flying colors.)
Buchholz gave up 4 ER on 3H, 1 BB, in 6.1 IP. ZERO HR. First thoughts were that maybe he was rusty off the layoff. Nah. How is it even possible to give up 4 ER on 3H, 1BB, and 0 HR. Unless someone sees something else, I ring this one up as bad luck happens.
On the positive side, Grey reports:
“I hope the Awesomus built spreadsheet can work and auto-fill everything, that would be great... I believe Rudy's working with him so it can auto update like the player rater...” SWEEEEET!

In the meantime, will keep plugging away. Check the top for new STREAMs.

LOVE your work and I would buy you a martini although I think you'd rather have a beer, can I interest you in an Oregon micro?

In retrospect how did you feel about Dickey's putative start yesterday at ATL. He ran into a bit of bad luck but that makes two straight bad starts in GA and two straight bad starts overall. I'm concerned that one of my two aces may actually be a joker.

Regarding streaming today, how do you like Billingsley at home vs SD? He shut them down hard at Petco on opening weekend but that seems long ago and in a season far away.

Fred, it looks like for a spot stream DeVries passed all the tests, but when looking at his season as a whole there were a lot of red flags.

Coming into last night, he had a 4.59 SIERA and an extremely alarming 2.2 HR/9. So rostering him based on previous starts would be a mistake. Now I know we never had the intention of doing that, but I'm guessing even the slightest wind blowing with DeVries is a gamble because he is so homer-prone. He also had a .222 BABIP coming into to yesterday's game, meaning he had been very lucky.

Looking back, this is a toughie. The big picture showed that this guy was going to hit a wall at 100 mph at any time, but the details of the game looked like a definite green light.

PROS:
Padres are 29th in OPS vs RHP, and 19th in away games, they strike out 22.4% of the time vs RHP with a 29% O-swing %.
Bills had 8.1 IP with 0 ER @SD earlier this year (his ERA vs SD over the last 3 years is 3.11).

CONS:

However, Bills has a 1.40 WHIP on the season and his day ERA is 5.24. Opponents batting .276 against him on the season.